Jinamanjari 1998 04 No 17

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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entrance has yakși Mānasi of Tīrthankara Shanti. She is seated on garuda, holding cakra, fruit and lotus in the left hand and on the right, she holds stem of a lotus flower.
In the right side wall of the maha mandapa, there is an image of Jina Shanti, 10 ft tall in kayotsarga position. Under the image, there are two standing devotees. An image - 3 ft 2” - of Jina Pushpadanta in padmasana position with prabhavali behind; two seated images and three standing images are also found. One of these is Tīrthankara Shantinatha which is 5.3” in height. In the middle, there are two saluting images of Indras.
The mandapa is 18 sq.ft in size. The entrance of the garbhagraha contains a row with nine Tīrthankara images in seated position. To the left side of this image, there is a Tīrthankara figure measuring 3 ft 3 in. There are also two Sarasvati images - one seated with veena instrument in her left hand; one standing with book and kalas in one hand and the other hand is varadha mudra. There are also two figures of garlanded couples. There are two dwärapālakas, one in the east has gadha in the hand. The garbhagraha is 13ft wide and 15ft long. The image in the garbhagraha is Jina Shanti, in seated position with an umbrella over the head. On the right side, there is an image 5 ft 6 in with an umbrella, flaunted by umbrella holding Indra, yakșa and yakși. There are also some small images of Tirthankaras.
The circumbulation of the garbhagraha has two entrances - one in the south and one in the north. Above the southern entrance, there are three rows of images:- the bottom row contains 9 images of Tīrthankaras, middle row has four images and the top row has seven images. The north entrance at the top has images of dancing damsels.
To the left side of the temple, there are images of dikpālas and yakşa and vakşis. In the southeast corner, Padmāvati image is found sitting over the cock-headed serpent. The yakși, Purusadatta of Sumatinatha is in sitting position. In the center of these two, there are small images of Padmāvati and other yakṣis. In the western corner, there is an image of the yakși; in the north, there is an image of yakși Manovega, of the sixth Tīrthaņkara Padmaprabha. To the west of the temple, there are images of vaksis: Atija or Rohini of Lord Ajita; Shvetavara or Kandarpi of Lord Dharmanātha; horse image which indicates the sign of Shambhavanātha.
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